Your biggest coyote

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CCP

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After seeing a few big coyote threads around the net I was wondering what is your biggest coyote? What area of the East was it taken from?

Back in the 80's I killed one that weighed 62 or 63lbs (cant remember exactly) on a cotton seed scale but it was not called in.It was a target of opportunity.Since then I have called and killed several 50+ lbs but most we kill around our area are around 40 to 45 lbs.

Looks can be deceiving at times. Here is a clip of a 50lbs coyote but when we initially shot it we were thinking it was more like 55 to 60.


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Post up your biggest weight and what area it was killed. just curious about the sizes in different areas of the east.
 
48lb male me and Cjdavis618 took this past winter. That's big for around here. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
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My biggest was 62lbs. I shot it back in the late 90's. No pics /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif Weighed it on the farmers small scales. We did check the scales to make sure they were right. Plus, it had a hole in it's side I could litterally put my arm thru. I shot it at @4 feet with 00Buck. He came in growling with all of his hair standing up. I was kinda freaked out /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
I will never forget that one /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif It was definately the alpha male
 

53 lb male

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You know thats a big dog when you have to use a tow motor to get it off the ground... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowingsmilie.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
Wow. Those are some big dogs. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

They look like they could take my 80 pound Doberman.
But I doubt they could. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
 
Those dogs look good. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

You guys are MONSTER KILLERS. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
 
Dang, those are some big dogs!

My biggest was a 39 lb male. Most that I have taken are in the low to mid 30's.

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Thanks,

bootmud
 
Here is the first one over 50 lbs. I ever killed. This was 1999 and was featured in the Primos catalog, 54 lbs., killed on the back of a Fayette County horse farm.

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Here are three big ones killed on one Mercer County stand in 2006, 52 lbs., 48 lbs., and 46 lbs., left to right.

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Here is my biggest ever, a 58 lb. male howled in down in Woodford County.

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Here is a 56 lb. male shot in the head at 125 yds here in Jessamine County. He was a serious calf killer and the alpha male on a farm who had lost over 50 calves to coyotes.

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Here are two over 50 lbs. as posted on Varmintal's website.

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Al, you ever seen any coyote/dog hybrids down your way? If so, how many over your yrs? Thanks
 
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Hi Kirby: There was a big coydog down here in Fayette County several years ago that was solid black, and appeared to be part Labrador or even bigger. I tried for a month to outsmart that rascal but could never get a shot at him. I killed a big coydog my second year of hunting who was more coyote size, average at that, and he appeared to be a cross with a farm shepherd. I'll try to find a picture of the mount I had on him. I don't have the mount anymore as some fellow up in Pennsylvania wanted it enough to pay me a bunch of money for it. Those are the only two I have seen in central Ky., but I heard about a big pack of them in Montgomery County years ago that was supposedly doing a lot of stock depredation. I haven't heard anything along those lines in years. The animal scientists over at the University of Ky. told me that coydogs have a tendency to die out on their own, something about not being born with the instinct to help their mate raise pups, females coming in season at the wrong time of year, etc..
 
Kirby: Here is a picture of the coydog mount I sold years ago. He was a pretty marked thing, about 40 pounds.

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Also, here is a picture of another big calf killer that I killed down in Mercer County. He was giving a farmer a lot of problems with his calves until I fixed him for good. He weighed 54 pounds.

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Thanks Al,

I see why he wanted to buy him. That canine is a beaut! & odd colored as well. Circa; 1972 we spotted a very large canine laying broadside in the wind on a distant lower hillside. Largest [coyote appearing canine] I ever seen in the wild. Appeared by all accounts to be a coyote, rather than a dog/coyote hybrid or a wolf.

We had out sighthounds ready for a chase. Plan was my friend, another young guy in the group & myself. Were to come in quartering from it's down-wind. I told the other two, to wait until we were all within shotgun range. As the plan was to kill it or push it towards the sighthounds.

Idiot kid shot at it, as we were all well over 100yrds away. More like 130 or so. It was even larger appearing, when it got up & kicked on the burners, heading Eastbound. The hounds never got a decent look to give chase, because of some small hills.

To this day, I don't know exactly what it was. Never seen it again as I hunted the area, the following Winters.

These hybrids interest the heck out of me. Pretty rare to see.
 
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CCP,

This is my biggest coyote. I was not able to weigh it as we were three fences and nearly 3/4 of a mile from the 4 wheeler and I didn't want to carry it all the way back!! It was a big male!

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It was everything I could do to hold him up long enough for the picture.

Jim
 


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